Texas: Irving 9th-grader Ahmed Mohamed arrested after taking homemade clock to school

CNN Has an Interesting Take on the Arrest of a 14-Year-Old Clockmaking Boy

However, an English teacher thought it was a bomb and Mohamed was arrested shortly after. Since then, Mohamed has been invited to the White House, Facebook, Google, and multiple universities for being such a bright kid who happens to live in a prejudiced ...

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Muslim boy arrested for bringing clock to Texas school

A 14-year-old Muslim boy has been arrested in the United States after a high school teacher decided that a homemade clock he brought to class could be a bomb. A Muslim teenager was led out of a Texas school in handcuffs after bringing a homemade digital ...

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A Muslim Kid Got Arrested Because His Teacher Thought His Homemade Clock Was a Bomb

On Monday, a 14-year-old student in Texas named Ahmed brought a homemade clock he built to school. His teachers had apparently been watching too much 24, because they looked at the blinking digital clock and mess of wires and assumed it was a bomb.

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Obama, Facebook, Twitter support teen arrested for bringing homemade clock to school

He said he showed his teacher the invention after class ... You’ve probably seen the story about Ahmed, the 14 year old student in Texas who built a clock and was arrested when he... At the same time, the school's principal suspended Mohamed for three ...

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Texan Muslim boy, 14, won't be charged for making clock that teachers mistook for bomb, police say

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White House invites Texas student arrested over homemade clock

The teacher notified officials ... "He didn't explain properly what it was and they felt compelled to arrest him," McLellan said.

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Texas Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School, Gets White House Invitation

The arrest of a Texas high-school freshman for bringing a homemade ... robotics in middle school — made a clock Sunday night that he showed to his engineering teacher on Monday morning. “He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Ahmed said.

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Texas 9th-Grader Arrested for Building Clock [Updated]

An English teacher told him that it looked like a bomb ... He was eventually taken to a juvenile detention center — while wearing a NASA T-shirt — and charged with making a hoax bomb, although police acknowledge that the bright student never told ...

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Ahmed Mohamed's handmade clock led to his arrest, then White House invite

"I didn't do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something, and I end up being arrested later that day." Asked about why Ahmed was not permitted to call his parents while being questioned by police, Mr Boyd said he did "not have answers to your ...

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Obama, Zuckerberg and NASA back Muslim teen, 14, arrested in school after his homemade alarm clock was mistaken for a bomb - as police confirm they won't press charges

A Muslim teenager who was arrested for bringing his home-made clock into school which teachers claimed 'looked like a bomb' has had an outpouring of support from high profile figures, including President Obama. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, created the device and ...

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This Muslim Teenager Was Arrested For Building A Clock; Is Now A Total Internet Hero

“I built a clock to impress my teacher, but when I showed it to her she thought it was a threat to her. So it was really sad that she took a wrong impression of it, and I got arrested for it later that day. Thank you to all my supporters on ...

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Obama invites Texas student arrested for homemade clock to White House | Reuters

"I built the clock to impress my teacher but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her. It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it and I got arrested for it later that day," he said. The teenager who dabbles in robotics ...

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High Schooler Ahmed Arrested for a Clock

DALLAS (CN) - A Texas high school freshman was handcuffed, arrested and suspended Monday for bringing a ... When he showed the gadget to his unidentified engineering teacher first thing Monday, he was told not to show any other teachers - hardly the ...

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Obama invites arrested Muslim schoolboy to White House

The teen was led out of his Texas school after a teacher mistook his homemade digital clock for ... “Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. The future belongs to people like Ahmed,” he wrote on ...

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Texas Schoolboy’s Arrest Raises Islamophobia Concerns

“Here in high school, none of the teachers know what I can do,” he told the Dallas Morning News following the arrest in reference to his engineering talent. He brought the clock, a creation he casually put together about 20 minutes before bedtime on ...

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Internet support erupts for Texas student arrested after his home-built clock was mistaken for bomb

“I didn’t do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something, and I end up being arrested later that day.” Asked about why Mohamed was not permitted to call his parents while being questioned by police, Irving chief Boyd said he did “not have ...

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Muslim schoolboy whose clock was mistaken for bomb won’t be charged, gets Obama invite

DALLAS – A 14-year-old Muslim student will face no criminal charges for taking a homemade clock to class that his suburban Dallas high school teachers thought resembled a bomb, the police chief said Wednesday. Ahmed Mohamed will not be charged with ...

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Muslim student arrested for 'cool clock' gets Obama invite to White House

"I built the clock to impress my teacher but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her. It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it and I got arrested for it later that day," he said. The teenager who dabbles in robotics ...

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Boy, 14, arrested for taking home-built clock to school

"I didn't do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something, and I end up being arrested later that day." Asked about why Ahmed was not permitted to call his parents while being questioned by police, Mr Boyd said he did "not have answers to your ...

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Obama Praises Arrested Teen Clockmaker For ‘Making America Great’

The student, Ahmen Mohamed, was called to the principal’s office after a teacher reported it. Police arrested him, put him in handcuffs, and took his fingerprints. “Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?” Obama asked. “We should ...

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